Wednesday, 9 March 2016

3: Love of books

A reader lives a
thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only
one.

Reading has been a hobby of mine which I developed
in college. I studied in a school where English wasn’t given much importance
and no one promoted reading among the students. One of my cousins worked in a
book store and Ajay bhaiya told me that books are the best friend anyone can
have and that a person would never feel lonely if he has the company of right
books. Hence started my unending love of books. My goodreads account says that
I have read about 40 books till now.

Why I choose to write about my love of books is
because for the past few months I haven’t been feeling the right emotions to
read any book at all. I tried reading different genres but it didn’t work. I
just couldn’t sit in one place and enjoy reading. Blame it on the depression I
stopped enjoying certain things.

I continued reading autobiography of Adolf Hitler.
I have read half of it earlier. I started reading just for the sake of
developing my hobby of reading again. It is also better than what my doctor
tells me to watch daily serials on TV. There is something about Indian TV shows
that I can’t tolerate.

I read most of the autobiography in 2014, I think
so I don’t really remember whole of it but what I liked about it was Hitler’s
passion for politics and how from very beginning he had every little detail
planned out in his mind. Most of the book is filled with the political issues.
I’ve not been interested in politics so I decided that now I have read the part
1 of the book and I will keep it to that.